Modi won’t be in Delhi on Kejriwal’s swearing-in day
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has been invited to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Arvind Kejriwal at the capital’s Ramlila Maidan on Sunday, will not be in the city that day, as he will be visiting his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi to inaugurate various projects. Sources in the party said the invite has been sent to the Prime Minister.
Kejriwal will take oath as Delhi Chief Minister for the third consecutive time, along with his cabinet at 10 am. The Prime Minister is set to inaugurate the newly-built Vaidik Vigyan Kendra or the Centre for Vedic Sciences at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) along with several other projects, during his visit to his parliamentary constituency.
Cong’s disappearance led to BJP’s defeat: Javadekar Union minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday said the “sudden disappearance” of the Congress was responsible for the BJP’s defeat in Delhi Assembly polls as it led to a direct fight between his party and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
“The (BJP’s) defeat in Delhi elections was because of the sudden disappearance of the Congress. It is a different subject whether the Congress disappeared (on its own), people made it disappear or whether their votes got transferred (to AAP),” Javadekar said. “Because of Congress’s disappearance, there was a direct fight between the BJP and the AAP,” he said.
People wanted to defeat BJP at all costs: Shukla Senior Congress leader Rajeev Shukla on Friday said the people of Delhi gave a massive mandate to the Aam Aadmi Party as they wanted to defeat the BJP at all costs. “This time, voters wanted to defeat the BJP at all costs in the Delhi Assembly elections. They feared if votes got split, the BJP, which contested on communal issues, would have won. So people unitedly voted for AAP,” Shukla said.
Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party has decided to contest all elections to local bodies across the country as part of expanding beyond Delhi.